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Blue Canvas Team

The Blue Canvas team builds Git-based DevOps tools that help Salesforce admins and developers deploy changes safely. Posts credited to the team come from the engineers, product people and early contributors who have written about Salesforce release management since 2016.

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Developer Tips

JIRA and Salesforce

JIRA and Blue Canvas are recommended for better ALM in Salesforce development. Blue Canvas solves the "source of truth problem" by connecting each org to a branch in Git. The recommended agile flow involves creating a sandbox for each epic in JIRA and attaching it to a branch in Blue Canvas. Developers work in their own sandboxes and create a Deployment Request in Blue Canvas to integrate features into the sandbox for the appropriate Epic. When the epic is finished, a final Deployment Request is opened to Production or the next stage of development. This model works with every ALM software and allows teams to leverage their available sandboxes for smoother deployment and issue tracking.

Blue Canvas Team3 min read
Architecture and Resources

Thanks, Joe

MavensMate, a popular Salesforce development tool, is being sunsetted. Salesforce's official VS Code plugin and The Welkin Suite are alternatives. Other options remain uncertain.

Blue Canvas Team3 min read
Developer Tips

Resolving Merge Conflicts in Salesforce

Salesforce teams face code clobbering and loss of metadata due to complex sandbox strategies. Git solves this with backup and merge conflict handling. Blue Canvas offers automatic syncing and 1-click conflict resolution for faster development.

Blue Canvas Team3 min read
Developer Tips

Destructive Changes in Salesforce

Learn how to simplify the process of performing destructive changes in Salesforce, making it easier and safer to remove unused Apex Classes and other metadata types automatically.

Blue Canvas Team4 min read
Developer Tips

TrailheaDX '17 Recap

TrailheaDX was a developer-friendly conference by Salesforce, focused on Einstein, DX, and Lightning. It provided insights on how to leverage Einstein and the beta for Salesforce DX. The conference raised interesting questions that will be answered at Dreamforce '17.

Blue Canvas Team3 min read
Security and Efficiency

Audit Don't Block

Maximizing speed and quality is a challenge for businesses, especially Salesforce development teams. Blue Canvas offers a solution with easy audit trails.

Blue Canvas Team2 min read

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